Words in Context
Read each passage and determine the meaning of the words in bold based on the context of
the paragraph. Answers can be found on this page.
If a painting is an unsifted mass of objects, it fails at the very point where art begins,
the point that marks the difference between art and imitation. One of the pathetic
fallacies of art is that realism of fact creates realism of effect, that increasing the facts of
nature in a picture or sculpture increases the “feeling of Nature” in it. On the contrary,
such techniques decrease the sensation because fullness of fact leaves too little to the
imagination.1. pathetic2. fallacy